Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology)
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Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology)

Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology)

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Svenja Schoeneich (Author)  

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Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties using the metaphor of the time bomb. The book shows how they find ways to "live off the time bomb" by using mechanisms of short-term coping and long-term adaptation and thus, developing the capability to determine their lives despite the ever-changing challenges.
Svenja Schoeneich is a research associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin.
  • Contributor: Svenja Schoeneich
  • Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN13: 9781800736566
  • Number of Pages: 256
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Release Date: 2022-10-14
  • Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Svenja Schoeneich is a research associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin.

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